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Reconstruction:Latin/verruculum

This Latin entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Latin

Etymology

Alternative form of vericulum, diminutive of verū (“dart”), with the ending changed to -uculum and with /rr/ taken from ferrum (“iron”). Indirectly attested in the works of Augustine via the derivative veruclātus (“locked, bolted”), implying a denominal *verruculāre.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /verˈroklu/

Noun

*verruculum ? (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

  1. small rod

Descendants
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: verrocchio
      verocchio (Versilia)
  • North Italian:
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: verroil
    • Old French: verroil
      • Middle French: verrouil
  • Occitano-Romance:
    • Catalan: borroll (Pallarés)
    • Gascon: vorrolh, vorrelh
    • Occitan: varrolh (most dialects; influenced by *barra)
      Limousin: verruelh
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Aragonese: birol (Belsetán)
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: verrolho
    • Old Spanish: berrojo

Forms influenced (again) by ferrum (“iron”):

  • North Italian:
    • Ligurian: frogio
    • Piedmontese:
      Western: froj
      Eastern: frocc, frucc
      Northern: foregg, frugg
    • Romagnol: fròcc
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: ferroil
  • Occitano-Romance:
    • Catalan: ferroll, forroll, farroll ⇒ forrollat, ferrollat, forrellac, foriac
    • Occitan:
      Auvergnat: farrolh, ferrolh
      Languedocien: ferrolh
      Provençal: ferrolh
      Vivaro-Alpine: ferrolh
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Aragonese:
      Ansotano: forrullo
      Benasqués: farroll
    • Asturian: ferroyu
    • Galician: ferrollo
    • Portuguese: ferrolho
    • Spanish: herrojo

Forms influenced by cerrar < serrāre "bolt, shut":

  • Aragonese: cerrollo, zerrullo
  • Spanish: cerrojo

References
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